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Superior Court Judge William Cohen has ruled that Lisa Miller, a former lesbian who is now a Christian, must hand her daughter, Isabelle, over to her former partner, Janet Jenkins by January 1. Miller conceived Isabella through artificial insemination while she was in a civil union with Jenkins. About a year later, Miller left homosexuality. Jenkins sued for custody, even though she has no biological tie to the child. Miller admits she made mistakes, like signing a custody agreement while still in the relationship with Jenkins.

Mathew Staver, founder and chairman of Liberty Counsel and legal counsel for Miller, said that wouldn't stop him from appealing the decision to the Vermont Supreme Court. "This judge in Vermont ultimately ruled that he is going to switch custody from Lisa Miller," he said, "and take her own biological daughter Isabella and move her from Virginia and put her into an activist lesbian household up in Vermont with a person she really doesn't know, who's not her biological mother, and frankly who's not acted as a parent."

The courts had ordered the child to spend time with Jenkins in the past, and Miller complied until her daughter complained. "Every time that the visitation actually occurred, Isabella had violent reactions, because Janet exposed her to the lesbian lifestyle," Staver said. "Jenkins tried to convince her that she has two moms and even tried to scare her by saying that she was going to be taken from Lisa and transferred to Vermont." Eventually, Miller refused the court-ordered visitations.

"Historically, courts have sided with the biological mother in custody battles," said Staver. Rena Lindevaldsen, professor at Liberty University School of Law, said it's another example of where activist courts are taking the culture. "Stripping a biological mother of her child solely because she has refused to give visitation to a legal stranger, is shocking. When you're ordering a child to be stripped from her biological mother, you've got to wonder, has the court overstepped its bounds?"

Source: Citizenlink

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